The Contract Administrator is a senior member of the firms accounting department and works under the direct supervision of the Controller. The Contract Administrator serves as the companys primary resource for contract reviews and is also responsible for job costing.

Core Values

All MGE's must believe, endorse, and always exemplify the core values of the organization.

This includes:

Passion for engineering

We celebrate engineering as a service, strive to understand how things work, and are enthused about engineering practical solutions to complex challenges. MGE employees must believe, endorse and exemplify the same.

Integrity & courage

We are life-long learners who have the courage to self-reflect and communicate a bold direction. We have an ethical obligation to serve, are curious about new possibilities that help us do it better, and are deeply driven to constantly raise the bar. We look around corners for better ways to do things, examine innovation, and never limit ourselves with not invented here thinking.

Teamwork & respect for people

We embrace challenges and rise up to meet them by working together, across boundaries, with respect and solidarity. We come together to act on behalf of the entire company to fulfill the higher purpose.

Empowerment and personal accountability

We hold ourselves personally accountable for upholding high standards of quality, creativity, and good citizenship as an enabler of growth. We recognize exceptional talent, willingly move them throughout the organization, and inspire them to be the best they can be.

Client commitment

We believe that we are on the face of this earth to engineer solutions that enable the success of our clients. We obsess over clients and work to earn and keep their trust.

Essential Functions (Role-Specific Competencies)

Finance - Contract Administrator

Level 4 (Company Expert / Functional Leadership)

• Performs contract reviews with outside council.
• Provides for collections oversight.
• Liaises with project managers to identify and resolve job costing issues.
• Performs month-end cost accounting close.
• Maintains cost accounting system and cost ledger.
• Performs life cycle cost-benefit analysis.
• Reviews general ledger accounts and corrects journal entries.
• Conducts initial internal control evaluations
• Posts monthly, quarterly, and yearly accruals.

Core Competencies

Project Management

Level 4 (Functional Mastery)

Project Management

• Exhibits project process mastery with confidence and humility. Demonstrated ability to see the big picture and keep the team focused on key team & company goals, and on the client experience. Ensures effective collaboration between team members, understands the various personalities, and how they can best work together for the good of the whole. Habitually performs Project Manager responsibilities without assistance & with the highest degree of efficiency.

Relationship Management

• Fosters a collaborative culture, with demonstrated experience training & developing staff. Demonstrated ability to oversee team coordination with managers, clients, and team members to set expectations, deliverables, and objectives. Delegates workload assignments effectively & inspires others.

Problem Solving

• Teaches the team to view problems as opportunities to grow & fosters a solution-based thinking culture, where the team brings ideas & solutions to the table. Enables

the team to fill knowledge gaps through active & proactive research. Assesses team issues from different vantage points, thinks "outside the box", & formulates the most effective solution in addressing specific challenges. Takes a "prevent rather than intervene" approach by focusing on team quality and due diligence.

Customer Satisfaction

• Ensures that the team focuses on the client experience and keeps the customer perspective in mind. Teaches team to have a "customer is always right" approach. Elicits feedback from direct reports and creates strategies to help the team serve customers more effectively.

Communication

Level 4 (Functional Mastery)

Listens and asks questions to fully understand the scope of the project. Clearly conveys the focus and intent of the project to the team. Puts instructions into a framework that team members working on the project can understand. Explains how the project fits in with the overall scheme of the company and its ultimate objective.

Through writing and speaking openly & honestly with appropriate body language and grammar, successfully inspires trust in both the stakeholders and the team members. Through honest feedback and clear direction, instills loyalty in team, making it easier to deliver instructions, make changes and provide constructive criticism. Reports the teams progress to the client with assurances that keep the client satisfied.

Leadership

Level 4 (Functional Mastery)

Enables, motivates, and inspires the team to meet deliverables within project constraints by demonstrating commitment, expertise, confidence, genuine concern, and the ability to help everyone solve challenges and achieve goals. Finds the key factors that motivate each team member, settles disputes, and effectively encourages the team to maintain its focus. Conducts timely and recurring career development and performance management for team.

Accountability

Level 4 (Functional Mastery)

Self-Direction & Sense of Urgency:

• Is personally invested in the success of the team by feeling that personal success is directly related to the success of the team. Embraces management, mentorship, and the ownership of the teams workload, and ensures workload is delegated effectively. Takes advantage of opportunities to advance the brand of the team, initiates project, takes ownership of mistakes, and gives credit to the team for their success. Takes leading action in the face of obstacles, freshly identifying what must be done, and leading the implementation of the solution. Sets challenging goals for the team and demonstrates a strong sense of urgency & persistence about accomplishing them. Establishes plans that break projects into their component parts, each with its own timeline. Seeks & gives performance feedback to others, and addresses performance problems promptly.

Flexibility & Resilience

• Leads the team through ambiguous situations, teaches the team to reconsider strongly held ideas, and maintains teamwork efficiency. Ensures team members respond positively to a changing environment and enables them to come up with creative ideas. When the picture is unclear and much is unknown, remains calm and comfortable, accurately assessing risks and options, changing direction & reorienting quickly. Acts decisively at the right time.

Results Driven

• Sets the bar high for the team and raises team standards; sets challenging team goals and develops standards against which to measure behavior & performance of the group. Persists in the face of significant difficulties, takes risks, faces fears, and demonstrates a strong sense of urgency about achieving goals.

Requirements & Compliance

Compliance

All employees of the organization are required and expected to meet the qualifications of the position. On an ongoing basis, all employees must meet the performance metrics of the job description satisfactorily, and in accord with the company performance management system. All employees must comply with all corporate standards, guidelines, codes of conduct, & policies as outlined in this document, in the corporate handbook, on the employee intranet, and as expressed either verbally or in writing. It is the responsibility of all employees to know, understand & comply with all compliance expectations herein.

All employees of the organization are required and expected to satisfactorily complete the learning curriculum prescribed by the Management Team.

• 4-year degree in accounting (or related field) required. Masters degree preferred.
• Experience performing contract reviews with outside council.
• Proven experience with collections oversight.
• Minimum 5 years job costing experience.
• CPA certification preferred, (or planning to pursue).
• Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint ERP a huge plus.
• Ability to liaise with project managers to identify and resolve job costing issues.
• Great interpersonal skills.
• Polished communication skills (both verbal & writing).
• Highly organized and composed under pressure.
• Solid management ability: able to manage strict timelines with multiple projects in order to meet deadlines under a high-pressure environment.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Possesses a keen eye for detail.